Create a Team¶

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Response
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- Request
- Response

The Atlas API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request.

To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Configure Atlas API Access.

Important

Atlas limits the number of teams to a maximum of 250 teams per organization.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

Syntax¶

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POST /orgs/{ORG-ID}/teams

Request Path Parameters¶

Path Element	Required/Optional	Description
`ORG-ID`	Required.	The unique identifier for the organization you want to associate the team with.

Request Query Parameters¶

Field Required/Optional Description

envelope

Optional.

A boolean that specifies whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Defaults to false.

pretty

Optional.

A boolean that specifies whether or not to return a “pretty-printed” JSON document.

Defaults to false.

Request Body Parameters¶

Name	Type	Description
`name`	string	The name of the team you want to create.
`usernames`	array of strings	Usernames to add to the new team.

Response¶

Name	Type	Description
`id`	string	The unique identifier for the team.
`name`	string	The name of the organization associated with the team.
`usernames`	array of strings	Usernames added to the new team.
`links`	object array	One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relation-types between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.

Example¶

Request¶

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curl -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/orgs/{ORG-ID}/teams/" \
 --data '{ "name" : "myNewTeam", "usernames": ["user1", "user2", "user3"] }'

Response¶

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{
 "id": "{TEAM-ID}",
 "links": [
     {
         "href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/orgs/{ORG-ID}/teams/{TEAM-ID}",
         "rel": "self"
     }
 ],
 "name": "myNewTeam",
 "usernames": ["user1", "user2", "user3"]
}

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